Rocket Swap

Save presets that combine specialization, talents, gear and appearance, then switch all of them with one click. For World of Warcraft: Midnight.

Why Rocket Swap?

Switching roles in WoW takes four separate actions in four different windows: change specialization, pick a talent loadout, equip a gear set and change your appearance. If you swap between tank and DPS, or between Mythic+ and arena, you do all four several times a session, in the right order, without forgetting one.

Rocket Swap saves those four as a preset and does all of them for you.

The game's own tools don't cover this. Blizzard lets you tie one gear set to each specialization. Rocket Swap lets you have as many presets as you want for the same specialization, such as Frost – Mythic+ and Frost – Arena, each with its own talents and gear.

Features

One-click presets

Each preset stores any combination of:

• Specialization
• Talent loadout
• Equipment set (from the game's Equipment Manager)
• Appearance (the game's transmog outfits)

Leave any of them empty and that part stays as it is. Your first preset starts out with the spec, talents and gear you're using right now.

A macro for every preset

Save a preset with a name and Rocket Swap makes a macro with the same name and the preset's icon, in this character's macros, and puts it on the first empty slot of a visible action bar. One click, or a key binding on that slot, loads the whole preset. You can also drag a preset from the list to the slot you want, like a spell from the spellbook.

All or nothing

Before anything changes, Rocket Swap asks the game about every step the preset needs. One "no" stops the whole switch, with the reason in the middle of the screen and, where the game lets it be read, the time left:

• in combat, in a boss encounter, in a Mythic+ keystone or in a PvP match;
• changing specialization on cooldown, or while you are moving (it is a cast);
• a druid in Travel Form (the game cuts the change of specialization there);
• a talent loadout or a gear set that no longer exists;
• a gear set that is missing a piece: the game would keep whatever you are wearing in that slot, so the preset is marked in red before you click, with the missing slots named and a button that fixes it;
• the appearance on cooldown.

The Load button is off while the game would say no, and hovering it says why.

The swap handles the game's quirks

• It runs one step at a time. Each step waits for the game to confirm the previous one before starting the next, so gear isn't equipped before the new talents are saved.
• One switch at a time. While a preset is loading, the Load button of every preset is off.
• It waits out the spec-change lockout. For a few seconds after a swap, the game refuses to change specialization again, and there's no way to tell when that will end. Rocket Swap waits and retries, so you only click once.
• If the specialization does not change, the switch stops there. Talents and gear are left as they were, instead of a preset loaded by halves.
• It shows progress. A panel shows each step as it happens: in progress, done or failed.
• It pauses in combat. If combat starts in the middle of a swap, the swap pauses and picks up again when combat ends.

The game protects the appearance change, so it only happens on a click: the Load button in the Rocket Swap window, or the preset's macro on your action bar. A preset that changes the appearance is not loaded by a slash command or from the minimap menu.

Wrong-gear warning

Rocket Swap warns you when your gear doesn't fit what you're doing:

• PvP gear in PvE content (dungeons, raids)
• PvE gear in a PvP match (arenas, battlegrounds)
• PvE gear with War Mode on. This one is optional and off by default.

The warning lists the pieces that don't fit and, if you have a matching preset, offers a Load button to fix it. It stays quiet in combat, and you can silence it for a situation (/rs unmute turns it back on).

Ready check summary

When someone starts a ready check, a card right under the game's Ready Check box shows what you're using, one line each, with the game's icons:

• Specialization, with your class;
• Talents: the saved loadout and your hero talent tree;
• Gear: the gear set, and whether it is complete. If a piece is not the one saved in the set, it names the slot (for example Trinket 2) and reminds you to save the set if you swapped it on purpose.

If one of your presets matches, each line gets a check mark, and anything that differs says what the preset uses, with a Load button right there. Wrong gear for the content (PvP gear in a dungeon) shows on the gear line. The card closes when you answer the ready check.

PvP queue summary

When a PvP queue pops, the same card shows under the invite and compares what you are using with your PvP preset, so you can fix it before you enter: inside the match the swap is locked. It can be turned off (/rs queue).

Also included

• Minimap button. Click to open the window, right-click to pick a preset from a menu.
• English, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish (Spain and Mexico), Italian, German, French, Russian, Korean and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), following the game's language. Game terms are taken from the game itself in each language.

Commands

/rs                 open the window
/rs <name>          load a preset by name (same as /rs load <name>)
/rs list            list your presets
/rs macro           make a macro for each preset, on this character
/rs fix             update a broken gear set with what you are wearing
/rs warn            turn the wrong-gear warning on or off (also: /rs warn pve, /rs warn pvp)
/rs warn warmode    turn the War Mode warning on or off
/rs ready           turn the ready check summary on or off
/rs queue           turn the PvP queue summary on or off
/rs unmute          re-enable warnings you silenced
/rs progress        turn the swap progress panel on or off
/rs gear            show what you're wearing and how each slot is read
/rs help            list every command

Report a problem

Found a bug? Tell us where it suits you:

• CurseForge — the Comments tab of this page.
• GitHub — https://github.com/otaviohonorio/RocketSwap/issues

Say what you were doing and what happened. The Report a problem link at the bottom of the addon's window opens the address ready to copy, with the addon's version.

Rocket Swap is made by Otto Rocket. All rights reserved.

Support

Rocket addons are free and always will be, and a donation unlocks nothing: every feature is there for everyone. If this one saves you time, you can help pay for the hours that keep it current with each patch:

• PayPal — a one-off donation, any amount.